Salad for Days

Turn everyday veg into something extraordinary, with this collection of the tastiest and most satisfying salad recipes from the Queen of Veg, Alice Zaslavsky.

'Stunning, fresh, luscious!' Yotam Ottolenghi

'An exciting and enticing triumph. I predict every reader will head to the kitchen to start roasting, grilling, tossing and slicing vegetables, herbs and fruits. This book is a winner!' Stephanie Alexander


You may have heard it said: 'You don't win friends with salad.'

Well, I'm here to tell you that you do. When you cart a kaleidoscopic container-load to a friend's barbecue; when you plonk a bowl of zippy greens down alongside grand mains to cut through and cleanse the palate; when you toss pantry ingredients together for lazy bowl-food on the couch. And when you tenderly roast hunks of winter veg to make them the hero of the hour at family feasts.

Times have changed and salads have had a glow-up. This book is your guide to making every day a salad day, and every meal a moment to get your veg on. For warmer days, there are salads designed to cool and replenish, using juicy, sun-drenched ingredients and the brightest of colours. For cooler days, there are salads that will sustain, nourish and ground, giving hearty food a counterpoint so that you finish the meal feeling better than you started.

Salad for Days is both a seasonal reference guide and a daily roster to boost your repertoire, packed with inspiration (think Cauliflower tabouli with lemony tahini and pomegranate) as well as food that comforts (Honeyed butternut risoni salad with marinated feta). It also includes an indispensable 'what to make when' list for using up particular veg, as well as a huge dressings inspo index to return to time and again. With this book, you'll have salad for days ... and days ... and days ...

About the Author

Alice Zaslavsky is an award-winning author, broadcaster and ebullient Vegelante. She believes that everyone deserves to be able to understand food as they do letters and numbers. Born in Georgia at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Alice grew up with a cuisine that reaches for the veg first. It's no surprise, then, that this is at the heart of her food philosophy, helping others across the world want to do the same through her bestselling books, columns in The Guardian and Good Food and as ABC's food guru on radio and television.

Her vegetable bible In Praise of Veg has been translated into six languages (and counting!) in 14 countries, winning an ABIA in Australia, a Gastronomisch gold medal in Germany, a nomination for cookbook of the year in The Netherlands and a berth as a James Beard finalist in North America. She is also the author of CBCA notable book Alice's Food A to Z and cooking confidence un-locker Better Cooking.

Alice is the creator of Phenomenom, a free digital toolkit helping thousands of teachers and parents connect kids with fresh food and a love of learning.

She lives between the Mornington Peninsula and Melbourne, Australia, and on the socials as @aliceinframes.